On-campus memos bearing happy news are pretty rare. Here's one: "After careful consideration, I have recommended that you be tenured at this time..."
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"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind." God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (and see Mr. Rogers, below)
"Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail."
Jailbird, prologue
When asked in 1978 about his writing process, Updike said, “I’ve never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think that pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them, you will never write again.”
After the birth of his third child, he had rented an office above a restaurant in Ipswich, and spent several hours each morning writing there. Throughout his 50-year career, he remained devoted to that schedule, writing about three pages every morning after breakfast, sometimes more if things were going well. He said: “Back when I started, our best writers spent long periods brooding in silence. Then they’d publish a big book and go quiet again for another five years. I decided to run a different kind of shop.” WA
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"And maybe this is what I have learned more than anything from my great-great-grandfather: to keep my eyes and my mind open, to enjoy the wonders of nature and never cease to ask questions." Sarah Darwin, foreword to "A Modest Genius: The story of Darwin's life and how his ideas changed everything" by Hanne Strager
3 comments:
Yo, Phil!
Congratulations! As that world famous philosopher Yogi Berra said, "When you see a fork in the road, take it!"
Cheers,
Gina
Thanks, Gina... and thanks for mentioning Yogi (a fellow St. Louisan) who also allegedly said:
"How can you hit and think at the same time?"
"I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."
"I don't know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads."
"I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary."
"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
"In baseball, you don't know nothing."
"I never said most of the things I said."
"It gets late early out there."
"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there."
Congrats!!!
When ever I find a fork in the road a smile grows upon my face... for I know that "cake" is close at hand. =-)
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